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Discovery Pipeline Manager

Discovery Pipeline Manager

NonStop Recruitment • London, ENG, GB
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Temporary
Job description

Job Description

Role: Discovery Pipeline Manager - Defence AI

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Location: London (up to 1 day per week on site - Tuesday)

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Contract: Until 31.03.2027, with potential extension

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IR35: In scope

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Day rate: £450 - 466 (umbrella)

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This is a strategic role at the heart of the Defence AI portfolio, owning the end-to-end Discovery Pathway and ensuring that AI demand across Defence is captured, structured, and converted into clear, decision-ready opportunities that genuinely support war‑fighter needs and wider strategic outcomes.

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What you would be leading

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  • Owning a single, authoritative pipeline of AI opportunities and requests across Defence.
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  • Ensuring all demand is captured, tracked and aligned to agreed prioritisation frameworks.
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  • Providing transparent reporting on pipeline health, volume and flow into prioritisation, commissioning and delivery.
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  • Designing and operating structured intake, triage and prioritisation processes in line with team operating procedures.
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  • Translating fragmented or ambiguous demand into coherent themes and clear problem statements.
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  • Reducing low‑value, duplicative or mis‑routed requests entering the pipeline.
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  • Leading continuous improvement of the Discovery Pathway, with clear entry criteria and robust discovery outputs.
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  • Managing hand‑offs from discovery into prioritisation, commissioning and delivery so that problems entering delivery are well‑defined and evidence‑based.
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What our client is looking for

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  • Active SC Clearance strongly prefffered.
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  • Proven experience in pipeline, portfolio or demand management within complex organisations.
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  • Track record of designing and running structured intake and discovery processes.
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  • Ability to convert ambiguous or fragmented demand into clear, decision‑ready problem statements.
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  • Experience working across engagement, insight and delivery functions.
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  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior leaders.
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  • Confidence applying prioritisation frameworks and supporting evidence‑based decision‑making.
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  • Awareness of AI and its applications is desirable, but not expected to be in‑depth.
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Why this could be interesting for you

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  • Direct influence on how AI demand is shaped and prioritised across Defence.
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  • High‑visibility role interfacing with senior stakeholders, shaping a growing and strategically critical portfolio.
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  • Long‑term contract with stability through to at least March 2027, plus extension potential.
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  • Hybrid working with limited on‑site requirement (maximum one day per week in London).
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Inclusive hiring

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Our client participates in disability‑confident and armed forces covenant schemes. If you qualify for a guaranteed interview scheme, please mention this when you reply so it can be clearly highlighted in the process.

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